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Materials: Nepalese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper
this version in pinks is held by the Museum at FIT (accession P77
Celadon stitches stand in for the embroidered trim
accession 2009
Hippopotamus in Lilac Gallery Materials: Nepalese paper and cottonOne of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions, by artists who had never seen the real thing. So many old hippo drawings just looked all wrong, with little tiny heads! I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools. The
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